Beautiful! So beautiful!
And it is so wonderful to hear a song that truly has an Adam-vibe written all over it.
This song just totally sounds like him imo, and I don't mean his voice (that too, of course), but rather the lyrics, the melody, the phrasing...everything.
'Broken Open' comes to mind a lot at the moment, and a bit of OOL, and that makes me very happy. The lyrics use HIS words, they are put together in his own unique way, in the way he tends to write. And that is a wonderful thing to see. As a fan, I love that. Also, musically, it is full of Adam - harmonies, full of melodic lines, that in other combinations I have heard from Adam in other songs, and that I long recognize as his personal style. It is a beautiful thing! And I am so grateful that he gets a chance to make an album like this, one that truly shows him as an artist.
As far as this letter today, and then the new and very soft and subtle imagery, his explanation that he is not pushing his new relationship out into the limelight, but rather taking it slowly, ...all this is of course quite a change. Yes, it shows a new level of maturity, but probably also the caution that comes with lots of battle-scars.
I have noticed a discrepancy between the cheerfulness that Adam was outwardly maintaining, and what I guessed to be going on in his life, but I have to say, that the depth of what he writes in this letter, the self-doubt that he describes, and the suffering that he expresses, have still hit me pretty hard.
And yet I have the feeling, that because of the upcoming events with red- carpet and world-wide visibility, and all the press coverage, and the 'let's rock this place' attitude that will be required in practice from tomorrow on, and then especially on Sunday, that all this just feels like some strange roller-coster, that I am not quite able to grasp yet.And I am just standing on the sidelines, here.
I want to feel with him on one hand, and celebrate Sunday with him on the other. I am happy about all the news coverage, since two months now, and then I am getting these lyrics now, and my brain does not quite know where to put all this quite yet.
I am happy that he has found a place and space, where he can be his own artist.
And now I will stop listening on youtube, which is what I was doing in loop, while writing this, and will find out where I can download the track. Hope I can find it. Starting with i-tunes.....